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As studio room bosses, directors, and celebrities, Jews have been closely involved with film background and vitally involved with all areas of film development. Yet Jewish character types have been displayed onscreen in stereotypical and disturbing ways, while Jews also have helped to create some of the most troubling stereotypes of people of color in Hollywood film background. In Hollywood's Chosen People, leading scholars consider the complex marriage between Jews and the film industry. Editors Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson introduce the volume with a synopsis of the annals of Jews in American popular culture and the American film industry. Multidisciplinary contributors continue to discuss matters such as early Jewish movies and directors, institutionalized anti-Semitism, Jewish personal information and gossip culture, and issues of Jewish performance on film. Contributors draw on a diverse sampling of movies, from representations of the Holocaust on film to display screen funny; filmmakers and authors, including David Mamet, George Cukor, Sidney Lumet, Edward Sloman, and Steven Spielberg; and actors, like Barbra Streisand, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller. The Jewish experience in North american cinema unveils much about the degree to which Jews have been integrated into and donate to the making of American popular film culture. Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American background, and American culture as well as anyone enthusiastic about film history will see this volume interesting listening.
